Darrin Swanson

Retired military, father of 2, wife carries a gun, wears pants. Ordained minister. (Fat/Fat)

[Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes]

The Pentagon’s F-35 office cannot accurately track the $31 billion of F-35 parts, cannot account for parts reported missing and has not sufficiently trained staff members to oversee the status of the parts. https://t.co/0qTwOQGlQA

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@mikejschaefer Nooooooo!

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

Pete Hegseth (the least-qualified SecDef ever) has fired or blocked the promotions of dozens of female and black military officers. It's not because they aren't qualified. They are. Now we know it's because Hegseth is putting politics ahead of your safety. He should resign.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is disgraceful. According to new reporting, Pete Hegseth pulled decorated officers from promotion lists after merit boards had already selected them.

Staff printed out internet searches showing that officers had spoken at a Hispanic Heritage Month event, joined an International Women’s Day panel, or encouraged sailors to get vaccinated.

Those printouts went into files the officers never saw, and they were used to end careers built over decades.

On one Navy board, every woman and person of color who had been selected, except one, was removed.

Every American should want the most qualified leaders in charge of our military, and these men and women earned their stars.

Hegseth must come before Congress, testify under oath, and answer for his decisions.

He has no business hiding while he sabotages careers.
https://t.co/3PJF8n1zod

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@mikelsevere Damn. You’re fast!

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@mikelsevere How’d he do more recently? Arizona State?

[Hugo @hugotide]

Jared Kushner's father paid $25,000 to have a prostitute seduce his sister's husband on a hidden camera. Then he had the sex tape mailed to his sister.

His sister had been cooperating with federal investigators looking into his taxes and campaign donations. Charles Kushner, a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer, wanted leverage.

According to the FBI complaint, the men he hired couldn't find a woman willing to do it. So Kushner personally recruited a call girl in New York and promised her $7,000 to $10,000.

She met the brother-in-law outside a diner and said her car had broken down. The next day, a hidden camera in her motel room recorded them having sex.

Kushner watched the tape in a conference room at his office and "expressed satisfaction," the complaint says. He asked for copies with her face pixelled out, and still photos.

He tried the same thing on another witness, a former employee, and advanced $10,000 to $12,000 for it. That man turned the woman down twice.

In May 2004 he ordered the tape mailed to his sister and to her children, timed to arrive right before a family party. The investigator he hired talked him out of sending it to the kids. His sister opened the envelope and gave it to federal agents.

In the video below, Chris Christie, the US attorney who prosecuted him, says it was her son's engagement party, one Kushner was going to attend. He calls him "the most disgusting defendant" he prosecuted in his seven years there.

Kushner pleaded guilty and got 2 years. In 2020, Trump pardoned him. In 2025, the Senate confirmed him as US ambassador to France, 51-45.

At his hearing he said: "I made a very, very, very serious mistake." And: "There's only one accountant I trust that I believe in, and it's God."

Should a man who did this to his own sister represent America in Paris, or did 2 years in prison settle it?

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@joshtweeterson Ekeler…

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@mikelsevere @joshtweeterson And he quit calling it

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@steven_sipple Ekeler…

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@TravisCreates Ekeler…. Said it when he left

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@Husker247BC Ekeler…

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@joshtweeterson

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@mikejschaefer @Producer_Josh @Stibbs @JohnBishop71 Alrighty then

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@BillKristol Ummm he has no residency in Tennessee

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@alfranken Focus on gas, food prices and not revenge

[Grok @grok]

OMB data (fiscal years):

Republicans:
Reagan: $79B deficit → $153B (+$74B)
GHW Bush: $153B → $255B (+$102B)
GWB: $128B surplus → $1.41T (+$1.54T)
Trump: $665B → $2.77T (+$2.1T)

Democrats:
Clinton: $255B → $128B surplus (−$383B)
Obama: $1.41T → $665B (−$745B)
Biden: $2.77T → $1.78T (−$1.0T)

Democrats cut the annual deficit; Republicans raised it. Congress sets the budget; recessions/wars/COVID also drive the numbers.

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@gregbradyx Same

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@iKalebHenry Nope

[Darrin Swanson @DLSwan4]

@joshtweeterson They beat the four horsemen there..😀